Angela N. Antoine and Erica Nicole Antoine v. American Service Insurance Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• describing Heck in dicta as “strip[ping] a district court of jurisdiction,” but reversing the district court’s dismissal based on Heck without directly addressing whether Heck is jurisdictional
• finding an excessive force claim was not barred under Heck despite the plaintiff’s denial of the facts underlying the disciplinary conviction because it was “logically possible both that [the prisoner] lunged at [the officer] and that [the officer] used excessive force against him.”
• Heck did not bar prisoner found guilty of battery 10 USCA11 Case: 20-14200 Date Filed: 05/24/2021 Page: 11 of 12 against a correctional officer from pursuing excessive force claim against officer
• “A prisoner may be punished for battery on a prison guard, and that prison guard may be held liable for using excessive force on the prisoner in subduing him; both may be true.”
• “[W[here the allegation in the § 1983 complaint is a specific one that both necessarily implies the earlier decision is invalid and is necessary to the success of the § 1983 suit itself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).